Barbarism

The debut solo album from the former lead singer of Priests feels caught between reality and nightmare, balancing dissonant soundscapes against an eerie, self-possessed sense of calm.

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Throughout her recording career, now over a decade old, Katie Alice Greer has always been a provocateur, but that has just made her ahead of the curve.

They were a group effort, but the spotlight belonged entirely to Katie Alice Greer, a formidable force onstage and in the studio, capable of all of the screaming and yowling that frequently go along with the role of being a punk singer, but with a beautiful edge that made the softer moments feel as outstanding as the loud — for a great example of this, take a look at how the long, moody “Not Perceived” is followed by the shredding, overblown “Control Freak” on their second and final album, 2019’s fucking awesome The Seduction of Kansas.

The Washington D.C. punk band Priests were one of a kind. Not many could combine the best parts of 80s and 90s punk and actually produce something worthwhile, but they did it. They released their second album The Seduction of Kansa, in 2019, before going on indefinite hiatus later in the year, unfortunately. One of